Statement of Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy

Statement of Bureau of Reclamation, Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy on H.R. 4671, 4707 & 9248, August 23-27?, 1965, page 4aspects of the plan. All project appropriations and revenues would be credited to the Fund. Surplus revenues from Hoover, Parker, and Davis Powerplants, after completion of payout, would also be credited to the Fund. Revenues credited to the Fund would be available without further appropriation from project operation, maintenance, and replacement costs and emergency expenditures but would not be available for construction of works. Revenues in the Fund in excess of the amount required for operation, maintenance, and replacement costs and emergency expenditures would be paid annually into the general fund of the Treasury to return all reimbursable project costs, with interest where appropriate, including financial assistance in the repayment of irrigation costs in excess of the water user's ability to repay. Surplus revenues also would be available to assist in the return of costs of measures to develop new water supplies for the Lower Colorado River Basin. The value and extent of such assistance would be defined in future proposals to authorize such measures. Title IV also provides that, to the extent that revenues are available in the Fund after meeting project operation, maintenace, replacement, and construction costs for units therein authorized, they be used to defray added costs of water to users which would otherwise not have been incurred by such users if there were sufficient water available in the Colorado River to satisfy an annual consumptive use 4Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 996,020 byte